Franz Kemmerich

Franz Kemmerich (1899-1918) was an Imperial German Army private who was killed in action while serving on the Western Front of World War I.

Biography
Franz Kemmerich was born in Germany in 1900, and he studied to be a forester during his youth. He and his high school classmates Albert Kropp, Paul Baumer, Friedrich Muller, Joseph Behm, and Peter Leer were convinced to join the Imperial German Army in 1918 by their nationalistic teacher Kantorek, and they were assigned to Lieutenant Stanislaus Katzinsky's 2nd Company on the Western Front in France. He was mortally wounded in the leg during the Hundred Days Offensive, and he died after his leg was amputated.